From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ADC7439.3060502@maht0x0r.net> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:17 +0100 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20060326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <3e1162e60910150807w52ff067eq533e4cbd7493fee0@mail.gmail.com> <20091016172113.GC3135@nipl.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8a9da66c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > >The misinterpretation of Moore's Law is to blame here, of course: Moore >is a smart guy and he was talking about transistor density, but pop culture >made is sound like he was talking speed up. For some time the two were >in lock-step. Not anymore. > > I ran the numbers the other day based on sped doubles every 2 years, a 60Mhz Pentium would be running 16Ghz by now I think it was the 1ghz that should be 35ghz